A tweet sent on July 1, 2022, from comedian Chip Franklin claimed that Mississippi lawmakers have discussed using dogs at airports to detect pregnant women.

The tweet, which has had more than 40,000 engagements since it was posted, spread quickly elsewhere on Twitter too.

Mississippi is among the 13 states which enacted trigger laws after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

It was also the state which sparked the Supreme Court's decision after its Department of Health state health officer, Thomas Dobbs, appealed a U.S. District Court conclusion that states could not ban abortions before the 24th week of pregnancy.

In 2018, Mississippi enacted the "Gestational Age Act" into state law prohibiting abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy except in cases of medical emergencies or fetal abnormalities.

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the state's Attorney General Lynn Fitch certified that abortions would be banned statewide, except when the mother's life is in danger or the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. The changes are set to become effective later this week.

According to Section 41-41-45 of the Mississippi Code, anyone "who purposefully, knowingly or recklessly performs or attempts to perform or induce an abortion" in Mississippi "shall be punished by imprisonment" for not less than one year and not more than 10 years.

However, while it now plans to legislate some of the strictest abortion laws in the U.S., there appear to have been no public conversations among Mississippi legislatures regarding the use of dogs to detect people crossing state lines for an abortion, as the tweet suggests.

The person who wrote the tweet, Chip Franklin, is a comedian and writer, who regularly posts acerbic, left-wing tweets. That doesn't necessarily mean the tweet was satire, as some users claimed, but is still important context when assessing the claim.